Composer Bear McCreary is probably best known for his work on the God of War soundtrack, but Amazon was right to hire him to provide the music for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
With the second season comes new music, and a featurette has been released showcasing how McCreary and his team decided to bring heavy metal into the musical landscape of Rings of Power. Check this out:
Though the series has pretty much nailed the same kind of themes that Howard Shore had introduced with the original Lord of the Rings trilogy, McCreary just ups the ante by introducing some new musical elements himself—and heavy metal would have been the last thing on the list of music that went along with Lord of the Rings.
The featurette doesn’t give us the final sound for Damrod’s theme, but it’s going to be interesting to see him enter the battlefield for the first time. I feel like it’s going to be the same amount of hype Wonder Woman’s entrance in Batman v Superman was able to get thanks to the mood set by the theme as well.
The second season of TROP can’t come soon enough.
Here’s the official description:
Sauron has returned. Cast out by Galadriel, without army or ally, the rising Dark Lord must now rely on his own cunning to rebuild his strength and oversee the creation of the Rings of Power, which will allow him to bind all the peoples of Middle-earth to his sinister will. Building on Season 1’s epic scope and ambition, Season 2 of Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power plunges even its most beloved and vulnerable characters into a rising tide of darkness, challenging each to find their place in a world that is increasingly on the brink of calamity. Elves and dwarves, orcs and men, wizards and Harfoots… as friendships are strained and kingdoms begin to fracture, the forces of good will struggle ever more valiantly to hold on to what matters to them most of all… each other.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 comes to Amazon Prime Video on Aug. 29.
